الرئيس عبود ، كيندي ، جاكلين، وحرم عبود (صورة)

Quote: With continued aid from abroad, 1961 and 1962 were relatively prosperousyears. In July 1961 President Ibrahim Abboud visited Moscow and cameback with an open credit of $22 million to finance development projects.USSR President Leonid I. Brezhnev arrived in Khartoum in October for astate visit. In the same month Abboud made a ten-day visit to the UnitedStates, which had given him $5 million in economic aid since the Sudan'sindependence, and four months later Chester Bowles, special representativeof President John F. Kennedy, came to the Sudan.In 1964, however, a lack of local and foreign capital brought about an economic crisis and an unpopular austerity program